History of Canada

Canada history is a long one. It took much of time to take the shape currently it holds.

Following are some of the major landmarks in the history of Canada;

Current archaeological evidence indicates that Natives first arrived in North America 40,000 years BCE (Before the Common Era) by crossing a land bridge which had formed between Asia and Alaska during the latest Ice Age.

9000-8000 BCE - Hurons (originally known as the Wendat) settled into Southern Ontario along the Eramosa River

6000 BCE - Different cultures were built around the buffalo by the Plains Indians.

500 BCE-1000 AD - Natives had settled across most of Canada. Hundreds of tribes had developed, each with its own culture, Canada's first tourists arrived in Newfoundland . Thirty gentlemen, under the charge of Richard Hore of London, soon ran out of food and were forced to resort to cannibalism.

1980- Jeanne Sauvé became Canada's first female Speaker of the House. Canada boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games following Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Quebec banned all public signs in English on September 23.

1983 - In the history of Canada, Pay TV began operation on February 1. Canadians protested the government's approval of U.S. cruise missile testing in western Canada. Jeanne Sauvé was appointed the first female Governor General of Canada on December 23.

1995 - Following some disastrous military hazing rituals, public outcry caused the disbandment of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. The Maritime Provinces became embroiled in fishery disputes. The government of Newfoundland took control of schools from the church

1998 - In January, the federal government issued a formal apology to native peoples for past injustices (such as the residential school system in which thousands of young natives were taken from their homes and forced to attend far-away 'English' schools). Canadian chief prosecutor for the United Nations Louise Arbour issued an arrest warrant for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity in May